Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.